Romney 2012: Serious Business Leadership.
Read moreEconomic Justice
Combating inequality means both lifting up and building power at the bottom, and breaking up concentration of wealth and power at the top. That’s why we work at the intersection of economic and racial justice through projects designed to build leadership and self-empowerment of black workers, immigrant workers, and low-wage workers, youth and families affected by incarceration, along with projects aiming to reverse the rules that criminalize poor people of color, and projects fighting to ensure that the wealthy and Wall Street corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
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Just Don’t Say Climate Change
Global warming can’t be legislated away.
Read moreThe One Percent Supreme Court: A Conversation with the Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel
Martha Burk interviews Katrina vanden Heuvel about the poisoning of politics by the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, and what can be done about it.
Read moreThis Week in OtherWords: September 17-23, 2012
Katie Halper’s second guest column unpacks Rep. Joe Walsh’s “greatest hits.”
Read moreBaseball Escapism
It’s a big business, like all professional sports, that uses good old American values to lure customers.
Read moreThe Latest Battle in the War on Voting
The kind of big government the Right likes is the kind that keeps certain people from voting.
Read morePoor Visibility
The mainstream media needs to step up its reporting on poverty as a campaign issue.
Read moreDisabled on the Job, Fired without Severance or Benefits
A GM subsidiary is providing an unlikely test for the U.S.-Colombia trade deal’s labor provisions.
Read moreChicago and the Psychology of Teacher Bashing
In a deeply unequal society, the affluent will always sneer at public services and the men and women who provide them.
Read moreJoe Walsh’s Greatest Hits
It’s not easy to disrespect the disabled and the military in the same breath.
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